Growth of Bristol's trade came with the rise of England's American colonies in the 17th century. Bristol's location on the west side of Great Britain gave ships an advantage in sailing to and from the New World. The 18th century saw an expansion of England's role in the Atlantic trade in Africans taken for slavery to the Americas. Bristol and with Liverpool became a centre of the Triangular Trade. Manufactured goods were shipped to West Africa and exchanged for African shipped as slaves to the Americas. Then plantation goods such as sugar, tobacco, rum, rice, and cotton were returned.
Growth of Bristol and trade came with the rise of England's American colonies in the 17th century. Bristol's location on the west side of Great Britain gave its ships an advantage in sailing to and from the New World, and the city's merchants made the most of it. The 18th century saw an expansion of England's role in the Atlantic trade in Africans taken for slavery to the Americas. Bristol and with Liverpool became a centre of the Triangular Trade. Manufactured goods were shipped to West Africa and exchanged for Africans. From 1700 to 1807, more than 2,000 slave ships carried a conservatively estimated 500,000 people from Africa to slavery in the Americas under brutal conditions. Then plantation goods such as sugar, tobacco, rum, rice, cotton and a few slaves (sold to the aristocracy as house servants) returned across the Atlantic.
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